Mark Zuckerberg

Tech Bro Manifesto

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Gross slob and Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently released a fascist manifesto on X, the app that loves that sort of thing. As the AI bubble begins to show cracks even its boosters can’t ignore, the CEOs are becoming increasingly belligerent, having spent years surrounded by yes-men and yes-chatbots telling them everyone loves having the entire economy propped up by vaporware no one wants.

I could’ve easily included Google, Microsoft, and Apple CEOs in this comic too, but the one’s featured here are all-in on Al and fascism and have yet to contribute anything beneficial to society. You could make the case that Musk and Zuck used to make things, but you’d be wrong, dummy. They bought (or stole) already existing things and then took credit for it. Even I could do that if I had apartheid emerald mine money.

Anyway, I’ll continue hammering away at the idea that AI rots your brain, and the only proof you need is its loudest proponents.

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Incredible Global News 2025

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Some goofs and gags to close out the year (or until next week when I draw something else).

The last panel is inspired by the alt-text I wrote for this Bluesky post. Larry’s failson is destroying CBS and Paramount by installing people even dumber than him, I assume. After this was already inked, Bari Weiss killed a 60 Minutes piece about our CECOT concentration camp in El Salvador. I’m sure she’ll fail up even further and get appointed to Captain on Strange New Worlds.

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The Plutocrats

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Oligarchs, plutocrats, whatever you want to call them, they’re all breaking their necks to be the first to lick Trump’s boots before he’s even sworn in for the second time. Something really is wrong with billionaire brains because they’re the one class that doesn’t have to think or worry about the guy at all. They’re gonna be fine!

They’re each uniquely awful in their own ways, but Zuckerberg’s latest move to explicitly throw LGBTQ+ people under the bus might be the most craven. He’s so convinced people won’t leave his platforms that he’s copying what Elon Musk did to Twitter and not expecting half its userbase to leave.

Maybe there are enough people addicted to Facebook and Instagram for that to succeed, but I won’t be posting anything there besides links that no one sees anyway.

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Election Anxiety Remedies

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With less than a week to go until votes are finally counted, people’s election madness has reached a fever pitch. A lot of people have channeled that energy into productive uses, but the one’s who haven’t can’t stop clogging our timelines with increasingly panicked posts.

While there’s still a few days to get out the vote with phone banks and canvassing, ballot curing is a process I didn’t know much about until recently. 33 states allow voters whose ballots were rejected to correct issues over various timeframes. Getting in touch with those voters and helping them through that process requires lots of volunteers.

There are several organizations that do this, but one I’ve found that lets us slobs in non-swing states easily volunteer can be found here.

Hopefully there will be a decisive winner by next week’s cartoon, but I’m sure there will be plenty of coup attempts and other shenanigans going on for months to come.

Stay sane, everyone!

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Incredible Global News 2023

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The year’s winding down and everyone’s getting ready for their annual Spreading-of-COVID celebrations. I don’t do year-end round-ups because I don’t want to remember any of that. These are just some recent news items and gags to illustrate before I do some last-minute shopping.

Since New Hampshire mooches off Boston’s media market, I’m already being bombarded with ads for the 2024 Republican primary (I watch sports, if you’re wondering how I get exposed to ads.) so it’s effectively already next year for me. It’s going to suck on the macro level, but I hope your personal new year is a decent one!

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Box Office Bombs

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I still haven’t returned to going to the movies. Mostly due to never being a fan of crowded theaters even before COVID. But maybe if the numbers are low and the edibles are just right, I’ll get tickets to see Dune Part II.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s DIY Metaverse

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Every announcement from Zuckerberg about his pet Metaverse project has been met with much-deserved derision. It seems like he’s been forcing hype around something that looks like a Second Life knockoff for almost then 20 years since Second Life was relevant.

The idea of a virtual office at a time when employers are desperate to get everyone back in the real office only sounds good to manager-types. Those fortunate enough to work from home during the (still-ongoing) pandemic experienced what us freelance work-from-home slobs have already known: Sleeping in and no commute rules.

As part of his Metaverse pitch, it appears Zuckerberg changed his wardrobe to a long-sleeve shirt. I believe this was to ease the burden on his beleaguered programmers who’ve had to crunch to upgrade his avatar after each round of ridicule.

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Incredible Global News 2021

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We’re entering another pandemic winter where at least half the country is just ignoring it and going on with their holidays plans despite the lack of adequate testing. We’re in for a fun 2022.

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